This book is a critique of rationalism. It aims to explain both its powerful contributions to mathematics and physical sciences, where our arithmetical, geometrical, and mechanical intuitions have had a highly productive role in the development of pure theory, and its disastrous failures in cosmology and the moral sciences. In these supposed sciences, rationalism has all but destroyed the social conscience of the West, by creating the disastrous political philosophy of neoliberalism. To reset our moral compasses, we must develop new, and socially just versions, of the old welfare states. And, to restore democracy, we must return to Keynesian economic management.
By:
Brian Ellis Country of Publication: Australia ISBN:9781925003550 ISBN 10: 1925003558 Publication Date:01 September 2017 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active